Multiplex molding apparatus.



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MULTIPLEX MOLDING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION IILED APR. 10, 1913.

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BERNHARID KELLER, 0F DUISBURG-MEIDERIGH, GERMANY.

MULTIPLEX MOLDING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914:-

Application filed April 10, 1913. Serial N0. 760,217.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, BERNHARD KELLER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and resident of 75 Sommerstrasse, Duisburg- Meiderich, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiplex Molding Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for use in producing molds in condition to receive the molten metal in foundry work, particularly molds for very large castings, and it comprises means for jarring the forms for the purpose of settling the sand in the mold;

and means for transporting the mold to and from the jarring machine and other parts of the apparatus, such as the roll-over and stripping means, the. place of chargw the mold, so far as practicable, with a jarring machine that 1s commensurate with the dimensions of the Work. But the space occuplied wtih a plurality of individual machines of different capacity, together with the appurtenant: apparatus for delivering the molds to and from such machines, is a very important consideration.

One feature of the present invention relates to the production of a multiplex jarring machine made up of any desired number of units adapted to be coupled up for work as a single unit for very large work, but readily separable in order to permit one or more of the units to be operated inde-' pendently of the rest as the dimensions of the work may require, or to permit the units to be operated simultaneously but independently for. the purpose of multiplying the capacity for small work. f This part of the invention further relates to certain means whereby the units of the jarring apparatus,

when coupled together, may be forced to operate uniformly, notwithstanding each acts in response to its own individual power.

to which it is to be subjected in the process of completing the mold.

One feature of the present invention,

therefore, relates to the carriage for supportiugthe mold and the track upon which this carriage travels, and consists in adaptmg; the carriage to be received by the apparatus (e. g. the jarring machine), and in adapting a portion of the trackadjacent to the apparatus to which the mold is to be subjected, particularly the jarring apparatus, to be Withdrawn from supportingrrelation to the carriage, so as to leave the carriage together with the mold fully subject to the effect to be produced by the apparatus, without removing the mold from the carria e.

To further economize in the expenditure of power in carrying out the process of preparing the mold, it is desirable to adapt the mold to be inverted, to permit Withdrawal of the pattern without removal from the ears riage. Another feature of the invention, therefore, relates to the roll-over or inverting apparatus, and consists in providing the carriage with means whereby the plate for receiving the mold may be blocked up preliminary to inversion.

The invention will be fully understood upon reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 1 are, respectively, a vertical section and a horizontal section looking upward through a multiplex jarring machine, comprising two separable units; Figs.

2 and 2 are, respectively, a vertical sectional view and a detail view of the automatic leveling valve employed in the apparatus disclosed in Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4.1: are, respectively, a vertical section and a plan View of a means that may be employed in connection with Fig.1 to insure synchronism of vibration in the units of the jarring machine; Fig, 5 is a view showing the association with the transport tracks, of a triple unit jarring machine; Fig. 6 is a plan view showing the relation of three units, of a jarring machine associated in annular series and coupled together to adapt them to serve for jarring a circular mold of large dimensions.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 1, 1, 1 represent the tablesof two independent jarring machines, constructed to receive a connectingleaf 1 totransform the tables in effect into one large table; said leaf being removable to leave each primary table in proper form to serve independently. These tables are supported onframes 2, 2, against which they abut through the medium of cushions 3, 3* for the purpose of jarring the sand in the molds in a well known manner; the tables being guided in the frames 2, 2 by means of pistons 41', 4* working in cylinders 5, 5 in response to the supply and exhaust of fluid pressure medium through the ducts I frame reaches the proper level, valve 16 6, 6 The frames 2, 2 are themselves con: structed in the form of pistons and fitted in cylinders 7 7 in which said frames are adapted to be supported at any desired height by fluid pressure introduced through the'ports 8, 8 for the combined purpose of affordinga shock absorbing support for the framesand raising the table 1, 1 1 to the desired height t'oreceive the mold.' The cylinders '5, 5 are supplied throughpipes 9, 9* connected with the fluid pressure supply 10, and these pipes are provided with valves 11, 11*, so as to permit or prevent the-flow of pressure medium according as the different uses of the apparatus hereinafter described may require. 12 represents a bypass pipe controlled by a valve 13 connecting-the ducts 6, 6 around the valves 11, 11

14:, 14? represent valves of any suitable known type for the purpose of controlling the supply and exhaust of pressure medium, in'the cylinders 5,5. 15, 15 represent auto-f matic supply regulating valves for the pres sure medium, whereby the frames 2, 2 are maintained at *a constant and equal level I predetermined by adjustment of the connections which operate said valves.

' Referring to Figs. 2,- 2, the automatic: valve device 15 comprises an inlet valve 16 closing under pressure from the fluid medium supply 10:, but having a spring 17 opposing said pressure to reduce. the force:

requiredto open the valve16, and astem 18 through which said valve is unseated, also an exhaust valve 19 openingwith the: pressureof the cylinder? having a rela tively strong spring 20l slightly overbalanc ing said cylinder pressure, and a valve stem, 21 through which the valve is unseatedQ Both the valves 16 and 19 communicate with; the port 8 of the cylinder in which the frame? is supported, valve 16 to admit a pressure from the supply 10, and valve19 to exhaust.

said pressurethrough the outlet 22'. 23 represents a rocking yoke fulorumed at 24 and, controlled by a rock arm 25 carrying adjustable studs 26 in position to encounter the valve stems 18, 21, according to the, vdirection in which the yoke 23 is rocked. 27 represents screws for accurately defining the positions of the studs 26in the, slots 28; said screws being, fixed against rotation by jam nuts 29 and said studs being rigidly heldjto I their adjustment bylock nuts 30. 31 represents the connecting rod for raising ,or depressing the rock 1 arm 25.

cylinder 5 This rod em-' 3 bodies the lost motion shackle 32 (Fig.1), the turn buckle 33," and the connection '34; with the frame 2., Pressure being supplied to the pipe 10, isf-admitted past the valve 16 as long as the frame 2 is lower than the level at which it is desired to maintain it, by

reason of the downward pressure of the'rod 31 on the arm25 and the depression of the valve stem 18 by the stud 26. \Vhen said closes and the level is maintained. Should frame 2 rise above the level predetermined, the arm 25 is movedupward by the connec-' pressure in the cylinder 7 to escape until the loweringof the frame2 returns the yoke'23 to thefinterm ediate position shown in Fig. 2. 5 In-using the multiplex jarring machine, either one of the valves 11 or .11, say valve 11 is" closed, while the other (11) 'is-opened to admit pressure from pipe 10 past the valve 14: to the cylinder 5. Valve 13 is also opened so that the valve 14; then controls not only the pressure in'the cylinder 5, but through the bypass 12, the pressure in the In order that the apparatus may not be outof use, or the expense of operating all of its units may not be incurred when only small work is required, the leaf 1 is removable, the by-pass 12'may be, closed by the valve 13 and either of the valves 11, 11

may be" opened atwill to operate the corresponding unit independently of the other,

or each of said units may be operated simultaneously, but independently, and thus used for doing double the work of the single unit or of a single. largemachine.

' As will beseen from Fig. 3, means may be provided for insuring identity'in direction as well as the amplitude of motion in i the movable members of thetwo units; an effective means for this purpose comprising the bell-crank levers 35 connected through links 36 with the tables 1 and 1 and having a pitman 37 connecting their two lower ends; the cranks 35, 35 being so positioned that their connections with the, tables must move the same direction;

As'will be seen from Fig.6, there'may be I Simultaneous reciprocation is thus set up in both the units with their} three units 1, 1 and 1, with two intervening (connecting leaves 1 and 1 for the tables.

Or as shown in Fig. 6, the units maybe. arranged in annular series,-the tables 1 1 and l fas well as the connecting leaves 1 and 1 in addition to the leafgl being'in the formof segments of a circle.

I claim 1. A jarring machine comprising a phi-- rality ofunits, eachhaving means for inde. pendently operating it, and means uniting said umts and causing them to operate as pendentlyoperating it, and means uniting.

said units and causing them to. operate as. one; there being automatic leveling means.

combined with said units, comprisin inlet and outlet valves, and means controlled by the elevation of a movable part of the machine, controlling said valves.

4. A jarring machine comprisin a plurality of units, each having means tor independently operating it, and means uniting said units and causing them to operate as one; there being automatic leveling means combined with said units, comprising inlet and outlet valves, and means controlled by the elevation of a movable part of the machine, controlling said valves; said last-.

named means comprising. a. rocking yoke,

stems for the inlet and exhaust valves cooperating with said rockin yoke, and a connection between said roc iingyoke and said movable part of the machine.

5. A jarringmachine comprising a plurality of units, each having means for independently operating it, and means unitin said units and causing them to operate as one said uniting means comprising fluidpressure supplying and controlling means, and connections through which the control may be exerted on the plurality of units or on the units individually; said last-named means comprising independent valves controlling the supply and exhaust of fluid pressure to the respective units, means for cutting out one of said valves, and an independent fluid pressure conduit through which the unit of the cut-out valve is subjectedto the control of the valve left in.

6. A jarring machine comprisinma pluralit of units, each having means or indepenC ently operating it, and means uniting said units and causing them to operate as one; means being provlded to insure identity of direction and amplitude of movement of the moving parts of said units.

7. A jarring machine comprising a plurality of units, each having means for independently operating it, and means uniting said units and causing them to operate as one; means being rovided to insure identity of direction and amplitude of movement of the moving parts of said units said lastnamed means comprising crank levers ful-. crumed in symmetrical positions, with a connection between one arm of each lever :and the respective unit which it is to control, and a pitman connecting the other arms of the respective levers together.

The foregoing specification signed at Bar- 1 Germany, this 20th day of March 1913. BERNHARD KELLER. [Ls] In presence of two witnesses:

HELEN Norma,

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Copies of this patent may ;be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the f Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, 11.10.? 

